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A small army of children from Cedar Key and Rosewood descended upon the Community Center Monday night, once they realized that Santa had slipped into town early on a firetruck. The only hint were the Christmas lights that decorated his ride.

Somehow, he managed to not only get into Cedar Key virtually undetected but he also set up his headquarters - complete with an elf named Teresa.

Cedar Key School FAA met 40 of the top FFA teams in the state in the food science competition at the University of Florida on December 4 and came home winners. Cedar Key's Future Farmers of America students included Laia Gore, Brooke Allen, Mikayla Pope, Caitlin Goss, Ariel Alexander, Taryn Epperson, Abby Osteen and Samantha Sapp.

This past Saturday at Kona Joe’s Island
Cafe hosted a book signing for author Terri
DuLong.
Her latest book, "Casting About " is the
second in the Cedar Key series. The first,
"Spinning Forward," came out last year.
Additionally, DuLong has a story, "A Cedar
Key Christmas," that has been included in
the Christmas Novella "Holiday Magic."
The collection of four short stories by
four different authors, has made the New
York Times best seller list for three weeks
and was at No. 12 last week. This is the first
time that a Cedar Key author has made the
prestigious list.

Now is the perfect time to enjoy Florida's famous oysters. Florida oysters are available year round, but harvest really gears up in fall as water temperatures begin to drop. The cool months are when oysters taste the best.

Florida's oyster industry is based on the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica), which is found from the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico to the St. Lawrence River in Canada.

The Cedar Key Garden Club Garden of
the Month for November belongs to Bill and
Alyce Phillips of the Cedar Key Bed &
Breakfast. Their gardens include water features,
as well as one of the island's grandest
live oaks. Their staghorn fern also rivals the
best. Please join us in congratulating them
for such a picture-perfect garden.

Literally under our noses in Cedar Key, for the past six years,
mosaic artist Valerie Bretl has been going about her work - meticulously
creating fine art that will endure forever.
Working for eight to 10 hours a day on her
screened porch, she even received inspiration for
her current piece from one of the massive oak
trees in her yard. The dappled light, gravel
paths and beautiful landscaping are a
soothing backdrop to her work table covered
in marble pieces and tiles. Heavy

The light pouring in from the dome’s rectangular opening made silhouettes out of John Novak and the large telescope he built some years back.
“It gathers a huge amount of photons at an accelerated speed,” he explained, staring at his complex assemblage of mirrors, wires and metal parts painted gold and red. “It’s similar to the imager used on the Hubble (Space Telescope).”

Flashing their incredible colors and swishing their flowing tails, approximately 68 koi, 47 goldfish and their 7 owners
dazzled roughly 300 visitors recently at the 10th Annual Koi and Goldfish Show, hosted by the Nature’s Coast Koi Club.
The event was held Oct. 9-10 at the home of Johnny and Martha Foster of Old Town.